I am going to guess that it is "Three Minutes Happines" store in Shibuya:

Three Minutes Happiness With such low price tags on everything, it's easy to go a bit crazy at this two-story discount shop. Highlights include loads of affordable clothing, a towering bin of cute $2-per-pair underwear, and a bounty of bright hand towels (there are no towels in public restrooms, so everyone carries a reusable one). 3-5 Udagawa-cho, Shibuya-ku, 03-5459-1851

Oh the walk's not that long, peach. Only a quarter mile to "Three Minutes Happiness" from NHK studio.

eta: Looks like it's an easy trek till they get to Shibuya Crossing. They may have to go through Shibuya Station to cross over the JR train tracks to get to the shrine. Hope they don't lose anyone in the station. Come to think of it, just Shibuya Crossing could be a nightmare herding a load of tourists through that maze.

None of the work done previously by Peach or by me helps in finding where Konno Hachimangu really is. Here is a writeup on it:

Konno Hachimangu(3-5-12 Shibuya), a historical shrine saidto have been built in 1092. The Konnozakuracherry tree to the side of the mainshrine has been designated a municipalnatural monument and is well known asproviding an unusual variety of cherrywhose branches bloom in both single and doublepetaledflowers.

I can't copy this map, but it shows that this shrine is located very close to Shibuya station. This dovetails with the description boingo has provided to pass Three Minutes Happiness store on the way to Shibuya station. You can see the location of this shrine in the map at the top right of this link: Konno Hachimangu Shrine

Here's a view of 3-Min Happiness. I thought that the Dennys you see when you turn the camera around might be same place Ray/Yolanda stopped for directions, but it turns out their Dennys was several blocks south.

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That start staue? Is to the little dog that met the subway train every night for ten years waiting for his (dead) master to come home...

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Well puddin has me cryng about the doggie now, but I think that looks great! Somewhere today I bypassed a pic of the approach..I'll go looking again!

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"I can't speak for production, but I really like that people see us when we're traveling around the world. If you're a fan of the show, ... you're going to be more excited because you want to see what happens."Phil Keoghan

"I can't speak for production, but I really like that people see us when we're traveling around the world. If you're a fan of the show, ... you're going to be more excited because you want to see what happens."Phil Keoghan

Flights from Tokyo Narita Airport if on Monday July 18 (see note below) or one day later to HoChiMinh City were most likely VN951 1030 1430. They are also 3 nonstop flights late in the afternoon, but I estimate they are much less likely.

Note: I was doing the flight work for this from memory, assuming that they landed in Tokyo on Saturday July 16 , but I forgot about the International Date Line (who me?) and did not consult the calendar, which was off by 2 days from what was in my head.

I had checked the nonstop flights NRT to SGN for Tuesdays and they are essentially the same.

Flights from Tokyo Narita Airport if on Sunday July 17 or one day later to HoChiMinh City were most likely VN951 1030 1430. They are also multiple flights late in the afternoon, but I estimate they are much less likely.

Teams don't arrive into Tokyo until Sun the 19th, I think we have been looking at Tues the 21st for a possible Pitstop release? Do those flights work then?

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"I can't speak for production, but I really like that people see us when we're traveling around the world. If you're a fan of the show, ... you're going to be more excited because you want to see what happens."Phil Keoghan

I count 6 teams in the photo and maybe one that we can't see facing Phil so that's 6/7 teams so maybe your question should be where are the other 4/5 teams.

I think it's more of, "With nine teams spoiled to make it to Cambodia, Eric/Lisa spoiled to be out in LA & Garrett/Jessica in the pic looking all happy, does that mean Marcy/Ron are last this leg? ", than "I wonder where Marcy/Ron are in this shot".

Thanks, Puddin. The plate on the ground and the one upper-right might be prefectural plates.

That's REALLY cool! But why on the ground then?

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